如果我们的公共话语在线上和口头上日益充斥着咒骂，并且已经完全跌入美国式的政治暴力阴暗地牢，而令人震惊的所谓袭击海伦·海恩斯事件正是如此，那么澳大利亚的政治阶层只能自食其果。
If the increasingly vituperative tenor of our public discourse, online and verbal, has fully trailed America’s into the murky dungeon of political violence with the appalling alleged attack on Helen Haines, Australia’s political class has only itself to blame.
尽管来自全政治光谱的关切声浪此起彼伏（包括那些在网上和议会中培育了相当程度的恶意个人仇恨的人），对严重受伤且备受尊敬的印迪选区议员的关切，但显而易见的是，政治广场早已完全丧失了自我调节的能力。
Amid outpourings of concern from across the political spectrum (including from people who have fostered considerable vicious personal animus online and in the parliament) for the gravely injured and much-respected member for Indi, it is blindingly evident that the political square has long been utterly incapable of self-regulation.
澳大利亚的民选代表在议会厅内互相掷出的辱骂，除了在一片 invariably 坏气十足的笑声中短暂停职之外，毫无后果。这里的政治操作者——即美国专家们教授的武器化政治仇恨的学生——在网上追击他们的对手和批评者，施加最恶毒、残忍和冒犯性的人身攻击，有时还以所谓的幽默为幌子。
There are no consequences for the abuse hurled across the chambers by Australia’s elected representatives beyond brief parliamentary suspension amid the invariably blokey guffaws. There are no consequences for political operatives here – students of the US experts of weaponising political hatred – who pursue their opponents and critics online with the most vicious, cruel and offensive personal attacks, sometimes under the purported guise of humour.
与此同时，尽管传统政治赛事呼叫因其冲突的市场价值而备受推崇，但它既报道了袭击目标的痛苦，也发出了让他们“有效地硬起来”的轻蔑呼声。这不过是个玩笑，你知道吗，雪花们？政治的火药桶里，一切皆有可能。毕竟，这不是给胆小的人准备的。
The ongoing traditional political race-call, for all of its marketability of conflict, meanwhile, reports both the anguish of the attack targets and the dismissive calls for them to effectively harden TF up. It’s just a bit of a joke, don’t you know, snowflakes? All’s fair in the tinderbox of politics. It’s not for the faint-hearted, after all.
民选代表们的最恶劣的人身咒骂公开过剩是否会渗入更广泛的社区，并授权他们也这样做？毫无疑问。但它们会变质为实际的政治暴力吗？
Do the worst public excesses of personal invective by elected representatives seep into the broader community and license them to do the same? Undoubtedly. But do they transmogrify into actual political violence?
对海恩斯发生的事情仍在调查中，但这当然已经让民选代表们停下脚步，停下来思考。问题在于，他们将如何行动来改变现状？
What has happened to Haines is still being investigated but has of course given elected representatives pause to stop and think. The question is, how will they act to change things?
过去大约两周的澳大利亚政坛，是一个特别典型的例子——鲜明地说明了有必要“降温”，以回应总理反复敦促议会同事的呼吁。
The last fortnight or so in Australian politics is a particular a case in point – a burning example of the need to “turn the temperature down” in line with the prime minister’s repeated entreaties to parliamentary colleagues.
众议院曾出现对暴力（公开处决）的言辞暗示（并得到资深主流政客辩护），一场号称“保守派”领军思想家的主要会议上也出现了（谋杀幻想）的表述。
There have been verbal evocations of violence (of public execution) in the House of Representatives (defended by senior mainstream politicians) and (of a murder fantasy) at a major conference of purportedly “conservative’’ leading thinkers.
社交媒体回响并放大了所谓公共/政治话语中最糟糕的过激行为，还常常将其扭曲为针对政客及其工作人员的暴力构想和赤裸裸的威胁，且常带有性别化和性暗示色彩。安全部门一直在警告，针对议员——尤其是女议员——的威胁日益增加。
Social media echo and amplify the worst excesses of what passes for public/political discourse. It also too often contorts it into ideations and outright threats of violence against politicians and sometimes their staff, too often gendered and sexual. Security authorities have been consistently warning about the increasing threats to MPs, especially women.
与此同时，无论是传统媒体还是新媒体，在这个日益两极分化的空间里都肩负着沉重的责任。太多媒体远非不偏不倚，它们选择站队、煽动两极分化，因为在新闻媒体融合的时代，政治仇恨与分裂具有市场吸引力，推动着互联网的运转。
Meanwhile media – old and new – have their own onerous responsibilities in this increasingly polarised space. Too many outlets are far from immune to picking sides and fomenting polarisation, given the marketability of political hate and division that drives the internet in times of news media convergence.
联邦政府在对抗大型科技公司、保护儿童免受社交媒体最糟糕过激行为的影响方面，展现出世界领先的意愿（尽管效果或许有限）。但是，是否有意愿去对抗同样强大的势力，遏制同样阴险的政治仇恨言论蔓延——无论这种言论来自当选官员，还是来自淹没网络世界的无数匿名网络喷子和机器人工厂？
The federal government has shown a world-leading willingness to take on the major tech companies (albeit with limited efficacy, perhaps) to protect children from the worst excesses of social media. But is there a willingness to take on the same powerful forces to curb the no-less-insidious pervasion of political hate speech, whether from the elected or the hordes of nameless trolls and bot-factories swamping the online world?
当被视为政治言论自由的东西——但往往落入仇恨和暴力威胁范畴的事物——受到真实或感知到的威胁时，极左和极右会趋于一致。
The extremities of left and right will converge where there is any real – or perceived – threat to what passes as political speech freedom but too often lands into the purview of hate and violent threat.
无论煽动或可能引发暴力的仇恨言论来自极左还是极右——两者都充斥着恶毒的普遍性——现在都不是坐以待毙的时候。
Regardless of whether the hate speech which evokes or potentially spurs violence emanates from the extreme left or right – it is virulently pervasive in both – now is not the time for inertia.
行动胜于言辞。在未来的几周和几天里，政客们将就对联邦议会最受尊敬和喜爱的下议院议员之一所遭受的悲剧性暴力发表大量言论。
Actions speak louder than words. And in coming weeks and days there will be a lot of words spoken by politicians about the tragic violence inflicted on perhaps federal parliament’s most respected and loved lower house member.
在危机时期，我们的联邦议会和一些州议会能够很好地进行国家自省。但太多时候，这并未带来任何实际成果。如今，随着针对仇恨和暴力暗示的坚决反制措施的呼声此起彼伏，这些声音几乎渗透到了我们政治体的每一个角落，领导人是时候采取行动了。
In times of crisis our federal and some state parliaments do national introspection well. But too often nothing comes of it. Now, amid all the calls for determined countermeasures to the hate and evocations of violence that have inveigled almost every medium of our body politic, it is time for leaders to act.
宽容与善良无法通过立法来实现——尽管这正是当下最迫切需要的，因为随着越来越多的热度、观点和愤怒在这场国家悲剧之后涌入全国话语，国家讨论正日益激烈。
It’s impossible to legislate tolerance and kindness – although that is what’s needed most right now as more and more heat, more opinions and more anger flood the national discourse in the wake of this national tragedy.
如果海恩斯的可怕经历真的是我们政治阶层和媒体所坚持的“国家反思”时刻，那么真正实现范式转变、转向救赎性行动的时候已经到了。
If Haines’ terrible experience represents the moment of “national reckoning’’ that our political class and media insist it is, then it’s truly time for the paradigm shift to redemptive action.